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NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Una Corda

Alex Holmes checks out a veratile sampled-piano instrument from Native Instruments that will add the ethereal to your material…

Excellence 10/10 MusicTech

Piano instruments are like drum samples for the modern producer; you’ll likely have more than you need of various styles, sizes and quality that you’ve collected over the years. Una Corda from Native Instruments is a little different, though, and offers up a deeply sampled version of a unique piano, hand-built by David Klavins in collaboration with composer Nils Frahm. It only has one string per note, which gives a much purer sound than the usual three strings found on your average piano, and allows the user to easily slot in different prepared materials to dampen and affect the way the hammers hit the strings.

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Find the complete article and many more in this issue of
MusicTech
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Jun-16

About MusicTech

The new issue of MusicTech magazine is on sale Thursday May 19th, and this month we bring you a glimpse of a dynamic new touchy-feely music making future in our whopping cover feature looking at getting literally hands-on with your music. Also we bring you 6 ways to create a cool studio, 6 of the best mixers, the latest reviews, tutorials for every major DAW and a sad farewell to the Moog Voyager…